Archive for November, 2008
Life With Ladybug
By Shannon Magsam, Ladybug’s mother Yesterday afternoon I ran out the front door on my way to a holiday event — barefoot. My black high heels were still in the car from the last work thing I’d attended. I’d slipped them off in the car in favor of a cushy pair. When I stuck my [...]
Gift Ideas for Holiday 2008!
Today we unveil the fifth item in our list of Gift Ideas for Holiday 2008. Everybody has at least one person on their shopping list who’s nearly impossible to buy for. Either she has everything, or she’s got WAY too much stuff crowding her house already, or she’s just extra particular about likes and dislikes. [...]
Mommy In Progress: Why I chose a midwife
By Jacqueline Presley I had been thinking about having a baby for a couple years before we actually started trying. I quizzed my friends about their experiences and tried to become as educated about the progress as I could ahead of actually getting pregnant, so I could make informed choices about maternity care. The more [...]
Just a few hours left in the Gold Mine Giveaway!
UPDATE: We’ll choose a winner at random at noon today (Thursday, Nov. 20), so get your tail in high gear and COMMENT for your chance to own this gorgeous necklace! It’s baaaaack! Our famous Gold Mine Giveaway is going to make somebody a really, really happy lady this week. As always, we only put the [...]
Good Gossip: A guilt-free dish
If you’re new to nwaMotherlode.com, you’ll want to know what makes our celebrity gossip column a little different from the rest. Ours is “good” gossip, which means we filter out all that nasty, mean-spirited stuff (that’s often a big fat lie anyway) and yet still deliver those interesting little personal tidbits about popular celebs. So [...]
More crazy recipes
The latest crazy — yet tasty — recipes come from two nwaMotherlode readers. The first one is chocolate cake in a mug from Fayetteville mom of two, Shannon Jones (who got it from her neighbor, Tricia Moore, who got it from a friend in Canda). It is seriously made in a mug in five minutes [...]
Drama for Mama: Desperate Housewives in flames!
Sunday night’s drama was burnin’ down the house – literally. There’s nothing like a catastrophe to really pump up a story line, and that’s exactly what happened this week on Desperate Housewives. If you missed all the smoke, here’s what led up to the fire: Porter’s brother told Mom Lynette that his twin’s married secret [...]
Devotion in Motion: Just Another Brick in the Wall?
By guest writer and local dad Scott McClymonds, owner of Busy Bees Christian Preschool Hello again Moms of Northwest Arkansas. A few months ago, I wrote here about the Old Testament book of Nehemiah. In the third chapter of Nehemiah, the work of rebuilding the wall around Jerusalem is started with great enthusiasm. As you [...]
The Rockwood Files: “Picture This”
By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 As much as I love photographs, I hate family picture day. No matter how well I plan it, no matter how much I want it to go well, it doesn’t. Maybe the problem is I want it too much. Like many mothers, I’m a photo junkie. [...]
Family Portrait Giveaway Winner!
UPDATE: Portrait giveaway winner Kimberly Williamson gave us a call this morning and was very happy to accept her prize! Kimberly has two children, 5-year-old Clayton, and 2-year-old Sydney. She and her family, which includes husband Zach, live in Springdale. Kimberly offered thanks to her friend Jamie Stein for telling her about nwaMotherlode (and offered [...]
Bath Junkies have a party!
Julia Applegate and her girlfriends are hard-core bath junkies who know how to take a free party and run with it! Julia, a loan officer at Signature Bank (and winner of the Bath Junkie party last month) recently rounded up her friends to hang out together at the Rogers store. The friends (pictured L to [...]
Barnes & Noble Book Drive to Benefit Head Start
In the spirit of giving, Barnes & Noble at 4144 N. College Ave. in Fayetteville is asking for the community’s help to collect 5,000 new books to donate to the Washington County Head Start program. “Many of these children have never owned books of their very own,” said Kelly Hatchett, Community Relations Manager for Barnes [...]
Celebrate World Kindness Day with a Kind Word
Did you know that today is World Kindness Day? It was born out of a series of international conferences held in Japan and has since become a day just perfect for committing random acts of kindness. With that in mind, why don’t we start right now by being randomly kind to those people in our [...]
Life With Ladybug: The Sound of Silence
Hi, dearhearts. No real post here today. Gwen and I are tending a booth at Candy Candy Lane at the Clarion Hotel in Bentonville from noon to 8 p.m. Come by and say hello! I’ll be the one with the bad haircut. Can somebody please tell me why, when my normal hairdresser was unexpectedly out [...]
Product Review: KitchenAid Induction Cooktop
By Shannon Magsam, cooktop coveter With curious children around, mamas have good reason to be worried about little fingers getting burned in the kitchen. With that concern in mind, Gwen and I decided to go check out an induction cooktop — one that heats up and cools down within seconds — in action. We knew [...]